CHANGMIN'S POV

I glanced at my watch, still half asleep. Three in the morning. Who the hell was calling me at such an hour?

“Minnie-ah...” Yunho's voice sounded as soon as I picked up the phone.

“Hyung? What happened? Why are you calling me at this time of night? Are you ok?”

He laughed:

“Anya, I'm not fine at all. Why don't they let me go? They know everything now. And you know what they said, those son of es: “You better not leave the company again to meet with those freaks or we'll make their life hell until you understand you can't leave this company. We made you.” ahahah apparently they own me.

“Hyung...” by his slurred voice I could tell he had been drinking. It was just like when I met him. He was a mess.

“No, no. It's okay. Don't you worry. The only thing they want is money. I'll give them money, I'll work my off to give them all I can. Who needs sleep anyways ahahha...” he kept laughing but it looked more like contained sobs.

“Hyung that's not okay at all. You have to get out of there. You've been miserable for too long. There must be something you can do. Sue them!”

“Pffft like I could ever win...

“Then... argh I don't know. Do something that makes them fire you.” I insisted.

“i can't Minnie-ah. I can't let them go after Jae and Yoochun again. Just... don't be surprised if you don't see me for a while. I have full time security now....” he sighed and hung up.

“Security my . They just wanna make sure you don't get away.” I mumbled to myself and tried to go back to sleep.

YOOCHUN'S POV

“Hyung...” Changmin called me and he looked like he had been waiting for me for a while. And calling me hyung? The matter must be serious.

Junsu was by my side, feeling as nervous as a kid in his first day of school. Changmin signaled that he needed to talk to me alone.

“Don't be so nervous Su. It's just like any other time you came to help M-Domain with their coreography. Go wait for them at the practice room. They'll be here soon.” I tried to tranquilize Junsu. He nodded and squeezed my hand in his before letting go and walking away.

Changmon followed me to my office.

“So, what do you need?” I said as politely as I could. Him calling me hyung made me feel we were closer now, and I didn't wanna ruin that.”

“I could have said this on front of Junsu but he is so nervous today that I didn't wanna worry him with another thing.” he said that in a tone that made the matter seem important. “the thing is Yunho called me in the middle of the night and....”

“Woa, woa, woa. Wait right there. All this suspense because of Yunho? Let me make this clear: I don't wanna know. Jae might have forgive him already but I didn't. Not really. And I most certainly not intend to worry myself with his problems!” I surprised even myself with my harshness. But I didn't want to let Yunho barge into every aspect of our lives all of a sudden.

“But hyunggg...” Changmin whined like a child.

“Go to work!” I said.

“NO! I came here to talk to you and you will here me. We need to save him. We need to take him out of that company or I'm afraid of what he might do. He is going crazy in there. CRAZY! You protect Jae and I protect Yunho. And right now I think that protecting one of them is protecting both cause I don't really wanna imagine how Jae would react if something would happen to Yunho. Do you? Of course you don't. So you have to help me take him out of there. He called me yesterday to say that he won't come here anytime soon because now he has someone has his security guard 24/7 and that way he can't really escape can he?

They found out he has been meeting Jae and told him that if he tries to leave the company they would come after you and Jae. And even if you don't believe it, Yunho wont do anything that might harm you.

They told him he can't leave because he is the money-maker, the face of the company. They reduced him to a thing, a freaking thing. And now he is in a prison. A ING PRISON!” after saying all that without even taking a breath. Changmin fell on a chair, gasping for air.

“O... okay. I get it. Calm down before you have a heart-attack.” I tried to joke.

“You don't understand. We have to get him out of there.” he repeated.

“I do understand. But I can't do anything can I? Besides, he had the opportunity to leave when Jae and I did and he preferred to stay there. Maybe he likes it there more than you think.” I knew everything I was saying wasn't true but I was trying my best to not worry about Yunho and trying to imagining that the situation wasn't as urgent as Changmin painted it.

“ARGHHHH, you are useless!” he stormed out of the room.

“What was that?” Jae came in right after Changmin left.

“Nothing. We just don't get along very well.” I lied and pinched the bridge of my nose in frustration.

“Hmm, just try to tolerate each other. Junsu is all happy that you guys get along now, it would be a pity if he realized it is all fake.”

“I know, I Know. What do you want?” I got to the point, I was tired of people making me feel guilty.

“I wanna thank you.” he said.

“What? Why?”

“Because you let Yunho come back. I thought that if he ever tried to contact us again you would hold to strongly to your grudges and wouldn't even try to understand things from he's perspective. So I'm really grateful that you didn't act like that and that you are actually trying to forget the past, like I am.” He smiled widely and I felt guilt eating me inside. “Changmin told me how Yunho spent the last few years. It looks like it wasn't easy in any of us, right? I'm so glad we can forget everything now, and that we can all be back together. I just wished he could get out of that company so he wouldn't have to sneak out all the time.” another wide smile and he left my office.

“Aishhhh...” I ruffled my hair in frustration. Okay, it wasn't right to just ignore that Yunho needed help. And Changmin was right: letting one of them getting hurt was the same as both of them getting hurt.

But what could I do?

To distract myself from my thoughts I went to check how Junsu's first class was going on. I picked trough the slightly opened door to find him having fun. Yap, he was really having fun while dancing and the boys looked delighted to have such an cheerful teacher. They kept laughing.

“I don't even know why you worried.” I mumbled to myself.

Changmin walked past me and gave me the stinky eye. He was really pissed.

After him I met Jae on the corridor, still smiling like he won the lottery.

All that was making me feel to guilty.

I got out and went for a walk. I wanted to straighten my thoughts and maybe think of a way to help Yunho.

I walked for quite a long time until I felt hungry and entered a coffee shop.

“One orange juice and one cupcake please.” I ordered. I sat at an empty table, still immersed in my own thoughts.

“Yoochun-ah...” a voice whispered. I looked up and found a guy covered from head to toe calling me from the table in front of mine.

“Oh just great...” I growled when I recognized Yunho. I was trying to run away from my guilty feelings and I found the one person that was causing them.

“Hmm, sorry. I didn't mean to bother you. I was about to go away anyway...” he mumbled in a sad voice because of my cold treatment.

“No. stay. I didn't mean to be rude. I was just surprised that I met you here, that's all.” I tried to be a bit nicer and he seemed pleased with it. “I thought you were imprisoned at your dorm for the time being.” he looked surprised “Changmin told me about it.” I explained.

“Oh... I can come out, of course. But...” he pointed to a big guy just outside the coffee house that was certainly he's security guard.

“Oh, I see. I'm sorry.” I said, and surprisingly I was being honest. I really was sorry that he was being deprived of his own freedom. That was really close to being a crime.

“It's okay really. I just need to find a new way to get away to be able to see Jae.” he tried to tranquilize me but he was obviously sad.

“No, it's not okay. Just run away... I know you fear for me and Jae but what can they do that they haven't done already?” I asked him.

“I don't know. And I don't wanna find out. Look, I have to go. Don't worry about me, and please don't tell Jae about any of this.” he said as he walked out of the shop.

Despite everything that had happened I knew he wasn't a bad guy, I knew he didn't meant to hurt anyone and I knew he didn't realize what he was doing when he did it. Deep inside I knew all that even if I didn't wanted to admit it and preferred to stay mad.

Me and Jae where victims long time ago. But Yunho was one now. And he had no one around him to help him or cheer him on.

Even though I wanted to stay mad at him for everything that had happened I couldn't. He was the victim now. And I had to help him. I had to help... my friend.

“Yunho, wait.” I ran after him and catch him in the busy street.

“What are you d...” he started to say but I silenced him.... with a kiss on the lips.

Everything that was heard around us was the fuzz of the cameras taking pictures.